Re: 3Discover

[P3D Oliver Dean <3d-image@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Sell wrote:
> Someone makes what I feel is a great system, invests all the money to
> make and sell it, and what do we get from our list:
> 
> It's to Hyper.
> It does'nt project.
> We are already knocking the camera, even when it's not out yet.
> 
> I think GOD could make a 3-D product and this list would find fault with
> it.
> 
> Be thankful that someone is doing something ( other than computer) and
> not letting 3-D join the Dinosaur in the fossil beds.
> 
> Guns warmed up.
> 

Hi, Wolfgang!

Let me go on record as saying that I think the 3Discover is an excellent
viewing system -- I bought three of them locally, two being gifts for
close friends who value stereoscopic items of quality.  In fact, I'm on
record with a method that enables far-sighted glasses wearers to focus
the viewer so that they can enjoy the full scope of the views without
their glasses.  And I fully expect to accumulate a respectable
collection of 3Discover cassettes over a period of time as I can afford
them.

I'm sorry if I started anything excessively negative with my remarks
about not being able to project the cassettes -- I was simply trying to
point out that the 3Discover wasn't designed to be a complete system,
such as the ones that evolved from Realist and ViewMaster standards, and
not to expect an advanced amateur or professional camera when the
3Discover system design excludes a use that allows display to large
groups.  I tried to make that a simple observation, not being
excessively negative, and I was challenged on the importance of
projection as a method of display.  At that point I had to come to the
defense of projection technologies to people who may not have been
exposed to the audiences attracted by stereoscopic projection at PSA
gatherings and who underrate the importance of business slide
presentations  and international color slide and stereo slide
competitions, which cannot exist without the magnification of
projection.  While I do feel that the locking out of projection
technology by 3Discover is unfortunate, this is no reflection on its
excellence as a simple viewing system.

In fact, I LIKE the hyperstereo effects -- this is something that
reveals landscape and distant cityscape contours in an attractive
stereoscopic manner that would be absent with normal interaxial
distances.  If we can have artistic license with such things as use of
polarizers and zoom lenses, why not with constructive use of hypers?

Just trying to get everything back into perspective!  This discussion
has gotten way out of hand -- to the extent that the fault was mine, I
apologize!

Cordially,
-- 
Oliver Dean -- 3d-image@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dominguez Hills (near Los Angeles), Calloushernia, USA


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